REPEAL THE OBAMA HEALTH CARE BILL NOW

As you know a recent Circuit Court ruled that the Obama Health Care bill was unconstitutional because it mandated that every American buy Health Coverage. As you may remember Obama campaigned on a plan where Insurance was not compulsory. 25 state Attorneys General were behind this court case. Now 54% of Americans would like to see Obama Care repealed. It will save us one trillion dollars right off the bat, and I think it will be more because you know what “cost overruns” are like. 62% of Americans believe there is too much government interference in their lives. In the court ruling it was pointed out that even in the depths of Depression in the ‘thirties, Americans were not compelled to buy wheat, for instance. And not even in World War II were people mandated to buy so many war bonds. Clearly these moves would have been seen as unconstitutional then. Personally I’d like an easy way to cut a trillion out of the national budget. That’s as much expenditure as a major war. Ron Paul doesn’t want these kinds of wars of choice, either. As you know Paul lost to Bachman by only a couple hundred votes but the media has treated him as though he had lost in a major way despite his winning two previous straw polls conducted earlier in the year. This may indeed be the year that his message gains tractions. Young people don’t want to be fodder for some war scheme, and neither do they want to be the “young blood” that an insurance company needs to keep going. This health care bill, by its very structure, will drive up medical costs. The reason for this is simple. The "demand curve" will be artificially jacked up so that doctors will see that insurance companies have more money to pay now, so they will raise their prices. This certainly happened under Medicare. From everything I’ve heard, everybody actually in the health care profession hates the bill. There is nothing in it to “bend the cost curve down”. The people on the Mc Laughlin group are convinced the libertarians will lose in their fight in the Supreme Court, and they may be right, if the Court is in the back pocket of insurance companies. The drug and insurance companies stand to lose a lot of money if this three legged stool of health care is toppled. Because without a mandate, the rest of the health care program falls apart. If Obama wants to be really decisive next month he’ll just announce next month that he’s found another trillion he can cut out of the federal budget – and now he can use SOME of that money for a new jobs program, and save the rest of it. At this point it’s far from a foregone conclusion that Obama will be reelected next year. I’m just trying to give him tips to improve his odds. One of Obama’s big shortcomings is that he’s made Black people in general look bad. Obama’s biggest liability is that he is a moral coward, and people don’t like that, and they’ll vote for almost Anybody Else.

If you ask me for my opinion, I’m out of ideas. I suggest you read just about all the recent postings on the last blog “Karmic Suicide”. But I know that’s not going to happen and if my opinion is going to be made known I better get on one of these smaller blog sites like oh Thom Hartman’s web site or something. I watched about an hour of Chris Matthews segments. Ads were kept to a minimum. What seems apparent is that both Perry and Bachman are peaking way too early in the campaign cycle. It can be said campaigning the summer before an election year is silly. Even at this date some new person who actually has something to add to the discourse could come in and blow all the current candidates out of the water. What’s clear is that Romney will end up being the Republican candidate if current trends continue because Bachman and Perry will knock each other off in the heated contest. Nobody wanted to answer the question as to what differences, politically, are there between the Republican Party and the tea party. Of course the tea party is a complete fraud and a front organization for corporate interests. Some have faulted for President Obama for going on vacation and taking ten days off. But George W Bush had taken three times the vacation days at this point in his presidency and Ronald Reagan had taken nearly double. Raising such a petty issue only shows the desperation of the right. Pastor Don while he was at my local church took a lot of time off. One time I said “It seems like every Sunday I show up, you’re not preaching”, to which he responded somewhat defensively, “Actually I have only not been in the pulpit eleven weeks in the past year”. I mean talk show hosts often take off a whole week for one holiday, just like congress does. It seems every radio hosts takes about two or three major vacations a year, summer, Christmas, and some other time. The only reason why Perry wants Obama on the job is so he can criticize each and everything he does ON that job. If I were Obama I would find vacation appealing myself.

We had Salisbury steak for dinner with the tomato based sauce. The soy sauce went well on the rice. There were mixed vegetables. I opted not to have seconds. We had vanilla pudding for desert. Basically I’m politically laying low and hoping not to get into discussions with others on the far right, because I know they’ll never listen to reason anyhow. I find it hard for Perry to believe he can sell this “job killer” notion on a person without a job, and that same person will buy into these giant corporate loopholes and somehow believe he is helped because those at the top earn a few more billion.

People wonder what a Ron Paul would do with the corporateocracy we have in America today. You have to know that - as Thom Hartman says, Corporations could not exist without the government in the same way that a fish cannot live without water, or you can't play any game without rules. Government has artificially prolonged, for example, the reign of the oil and coal companies in America. You know all of the Finance corporations that left to the "free market" would have died a natural death in September of 2008. I have spoken about Southern California Christianity, and I attacked it as sort of a "brand name" or "Kentucky Chicken franchize" kind of thing. You can't be a real Christian without an IXOYE fish on your car, for example. As you know it's a shepherd's JOB to fleece the sheep. Christians see their job as removing people from an environment where they live, to one where they can not. Polluting corporations want to transform the whole world into an environment where eventually none of us will be able to live. And they don't care. They have this sense of Entitlement to all the millions they derive from favorible tax laws. Ditto for religion. Places like India pride themselves on "protecting" obsolete industries, which may be fine as tourest attractions or something. Maybe we can preserve one of these oil refineries as one of the relics from a by-gone century. In previous times, nobody regarded a Corporation as anything but something with a specific charter, set up for a specific purpose, and it received the Death Penalty is that purpose was not lived up to. In other words in previous times, corporations had a sense of responsability. I would hope that Ron Paul would recognize this, and get back to a more "Classical" position on this modern corporatocracy.

Even as a rock group of “intermediate length” the Beatles weren’t around that long. It was only six years here in the US. This was a comparable period of time with other groups such as Blondie, Joe Jackson, Traffic, Steppinwolf, Deep Purple, Ten Years After, and the Police. When you place the Beatles in that company they don’t seem that impressive. Intermediate groups that were around longer include the Eagles, Steely Dan, Temptations, Ike and Tina Turner, the Moody Blues, Guess Who, Styx, Foreigner, Procol Herem, Electric Light Orchestra, Elvis Costello, Yes, Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Led Zeppelin, and Judas Priest. Groups that lasted much longer than this are The Kinks, The Beach Boys, Bruce Springsteen, George Thorogood, Metallica, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, The Who, the Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane-Star Ship. Jethro Tull, Rush, and Aerosmith. And remember that before Abbey Road was made, the Beatles already considered themselves pretty much broken up as a group.

Those two hikers who wandered into Iranian space today were sentenced to eight years for “espionage” by some high court in Iran, but they say their sentences may be commuted because this is the Holy month of Romadon and Allah commands they show mercy. A third hiker escaped this fate because they were allowed to leave last year for medical reasons. Pat Buchannon said that a President Hillary would have been more pro Israel and also would have gone to war with Iran. In that parrellel universe- - Mark’s and my predictions of 1982 would have been far more accurate. The people on the show concluded that whoever was elected at this juncture would have been vilified. Had that been Hillary, then Obama could come off as the “if only” hero. The trouble is the God knows what kind of a political coward Obama is rather he ran or not. But people were telling me when I asked “who is more electable?” they would say Hillary, because despite what they dislike about her, it doesn’t compare to the vitrial against Obama.

We are evolving too much into a "bread and circuses" culture. We live to be entertained, and real life and real people, and real issues bore us. This is a major danger that could end up undoing us as a country some day. While its true that people compartmentalize and accept that certain things are not real, the danger is that reality itself seems LESS real to people now than it otherwise would. It's just part of the media roar along with the Hollywood gossip info-tainment. I had Leo Le Port on and grew drowsy. The "pervue" of his show has become so broad now your odds of hearing something useful to you are vastly diminished as opposed to an equivelent show fifteen or twenty years ago. Leo gave a lot of time to this kid named Alec, who does his own stop-action Lego animations. That’s an extremely tedious way to accomplish something. Leo recommended a manual focus camera rather than the garden variety web cam. They’ve talked about chronic eye strain from looking at these smart phone devices. I wonder if there is going to be a push back, where companies will actually make “going big” the latest fashion statement. This push tword ultra miniaturization has always struck me as a bit of masochism.

Last night evening I had spike.com on as Terry recommended. They were showing a preview between a battle between Lawrence of Arabia and Teddy Roosevelt. Of course Teddy had to make due with the primitive gattling gun that had been around since the civil war. You’d call that the putt-putt of automatic weapons. Teddy felt he had to get out from under the shadow of shame of his Dad because he bought his way out of the Civil War draft. Nobody likes to think they have a coward for a father. Of course a lot of people are moral cowards before they are ever physical cowards. It's a credit to the son that he was not poisoned by what he perceived to be his father's cowardess. Unfortunately many households set a tone for their kids as to what "normal" is, and for a moral coward this "normal" is defined way down. And in the end it's not just the children, but society that ends up suffering for it.